[olug] sftp using cURL

[DYNATRON tech]

administrator at bunt:~$ curl -V
curl 7.18.0 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
zlib/1.2.3.3libidn/1.1


On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:08 AM, David Walker <olug at grax.com> wrote:

> curl -V
> will tell you what protocols your curl is compiled to support.
> My gentoo curl does not support sftp or scp by default either.
>
> Dan Linder wrote:
> > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 08:53, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> i'm trying to push a file to an sftp server using curl. i keep getting a
> >> "(1) protocol not supported or disabled in libcurl" error, but the cURL
> >> website states....
> >>
> >
> >
> > I can't speak for the curl command line program, but is "libcurl" part of
> > the curl cli package, or is it separate? It could be that you need to get
> a
> > recompiled version of libcurl that supports sftp.
> >
> > This link mentions that sftp is lacking due to some concern over package
> > dependencies:
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptSftpSupport
> >
> > You might want to download the curl source and try building it...or work
> > with Ubuntu development to resolve the issues.  :-)  (yeah, the first
> option
> > is much easier...)
> >
> > You could also try installing the curl.haxx.se pre-compiled version
> which
> > says it has SSL:
> > http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > (BTW, curl is at 7.19.4 as reported on this URL: http://curl.haxx.se/)
> >
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